PUBLIC HEARING
                          DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
                 MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
                            AUGUST 24, 2004
                               9:00 A.M.
     
                          SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH
                          LITTLE AMERICA HOTEL
                         500 SOUTH MAIN STREET
     


        Panel Members:    Pam King
                          Phan Phuc
                          Mike Kalich
                          Rebecca Smith
                          Tom MacLeod
                          Michael Okuniewicz

                         P R O C E E D I N G S
                    MS. SMITH:  Good morning.  My name is
        Becky Smith.  I am the deputy director of the Mine
        Safety and Health Administrations Office of Standards,
        Regulations and Variances.
                    This hearing was announced in a Federal
        Register document on July the 16th, and the
        announced purpose of this hearing was to obtain
        information from the public on a proposed rule that
        was published also on July 16th.  That proposed rule
        would include shaft and slope construction workers
        under MSHA's Part 48 training requirements.  Under
        the proposed rule, shaft and slope construction
        workers at surface and underground coal and metal
        and nonmetal mines will be treated like extraction
        and production workers and subject to the same
        Part 48 training requirements.
                    We have not had individuals sign up to
        speak at this hearing, nor do we have individuals in
        attendance at this public hearing, therefore we are
        going to close the record at this point.  We will
        come back on the record in about an hour and a half,
        about 10:30, to see if we do have speakers or
        attendees at that point, and we will reopen the
        record.

                    (Off the record, 9:03.)
                    MS. SMITH:  It's 10:30.  We're going to go
        back on the record.  We have had no requests for
        testimony at this public hearing nor attendees,
        therefore we are going to close the record on this
        public hearing.
                    (Concluded at 10:30 a.m.)
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
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